World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes
Michael Percillier
[Varieties of English Around the World, G58] 2016. xviii, 205 pp.
Michael Percillier
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Percillier plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2022 Chapter 2. Adapting the Dynamic Model to historical linguistics: Case studies on the Middle English and Anglo-Norman contact situation English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact, Los, Bettelou, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux (eds.), pp. 5–34 | Chapter
This chapter describes a new application of the Dynamic Model of contact by Edgar W. Schneider to the medieval contact situation between Anglo-Norman and Middle English, which lasted from 1066 until ca. 1500. Specifically, the emergence of an insular variety of Old French called Anglo-French, as… read more
2020 Allostructions, homostructions or a constructional family? Changes in the network of secondary predicate constructions in Middle English Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar, Sommerer, Lotte and Elena Smirnova (eds.), pp. 213–242 | Chapter
The network of prepositional secondary predicate constructions has undergone massive changes throughout the history of English. While in Old English forms marked with to (e.g. crown someone to king) used to dominate, forms marked with as dominate in Present-Day English (e.g. crown someone as king).… read more